Rancho Casmalia

Land grant in California

Rancho Casmalia was a 8,841-acre (35.78 km²) Mexican land grant in present-day Santa Barbara County, California given in 1840 by Governor Juan Alvarado to Jose Maria del Carmen Domínguez and Antonio Olivera.^[1] The grant extended along the Pacific coast from Point Sal and Rancho Guadalupe on the north, through the Casmalia Hills to Shuman Canyon and Rancho Jesús María on the south, and encompasses present-day Casmalia.^[2]^[3]

With the cession of California to the United States following the Mexican-American War, the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo provided that the land grants would be honored. As required by the Land Act of 1851, a claim for Rancho Casmalia was filed with the Public Land Commission in 1852,^[4]^[5] and the grant was patented to Antonio Olivera in 1863.^[6]

References

^ Ogden Hoffman, 1862, Reports of Land Cases Determined in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, Numa Hubert, San Francisco
^ Diseño del Rancho Casmalia
^ Santa Barbara County Rancho Map
^ United States. District Court (California : Southern District) Land Case 284 SD
^ Finding Aid to the Documents Pertaining to the Adjudication of Private Land Claims in California, circa 1852-1892
^ Report of the Surveyor General 1844 - 1886 Archived 2013-03-20 at the Wayback Machine

External links

Ranchos of Santa Barbara County Map

34°52′48″N 120°34′12″W / 34.880°N 120.570°W / 34.880; -120.570

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